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CORRECTION APPENDED AT some point, nearly every gardener has paused over a flower and experienced an epiphany: If I could capture the scent of that jasmine in a bottle, I'd [...]

SAMPLING some of the essential oils that go into natural perfumes couldn't be easier: just look for an herb or a blossom in the garden. ''If you take a leaf [...]

Do you believe that the best kind of neighbor is the one you can't see? Garden your way into a little privacy with these hardy plants, suggested by the landscape [...]

FOR seven years, my next-door neighbor Paul and I abided by a gentleman's arrangement to protect our privacy. I agreed to put on pants and a shirt whenever I got [...]

HERE'S a partial inventory of the things I've found in front of my duplex on a boozy block of northeast Minneapolis: two abandoned bicycles; a disemboweled 13-inch TV; a frenzied [...]

POLES used to rule 13th Avenue in northeast Minneapolis. A Polish deli and a Polish clothing store marked one end of this commercial stretch along the old Broadway streetcar line, [...]

HAVE you seen the Mushroom Man? No? Well, have you looked in the Secret Garden? It's a real place, you know, a half-hidden community garden at the corner of Linden [...]

Don't underestimate the mushroom. Yes, it often fancies dead things and dung, but the fungus is a biological kingdom unto itself. In the riot of the woods or the harbor [...]

It's not every gastronome who wants to savor a bowl of grilled swordfish cassoulet while staring at a 25-foot-tall photo of Arthur Miller. Yet there he is, either grinning or [...]

ON a recent Saturday, over a cup of tea, I redefined the farm-to-table food movement. It didn't take much. All I did was move my herb garden -- that is, [...]

THERE'S a 'Beyond Thunderdome' quality to Rob Torcellini's greenhouse. The 10-by-12-foot structure is undistinguished on the outside: he built it from a $700 kit, alongside his family's Victorian-style farmhouse in [...]

HOW wrong can you go for $2.25? That's the price of a packet of 20 tomato seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. The variety I'm considering is called Furry Yellow [...]

THE house was an ordinary house: It bore him no malice. Alan Berks knows that now. But back in the spring of 2005, when Mr. Berks, a playwright, and his [...]

UNDER certain circumstances, the smell of a whole roast turkey could help sell a house. Even Preston Wright, a vegetarian, would grant you that. The main problem with the turkey […]

WHO in the world doesn't love ripe tomatoes, fresh from the garden? Bruce Manning, a 35-year-old lawyer in Minneapolis doesn't, that's who. Neither does Aleah Vinick, Ali Lozoff, Joel Stitzel, […]

The Starter Garden is about the progress of the writer's first vegetable garden, in Minneapolis. An excerpt: WHEN I began sowing seeds in the snow-white nights of March, I had […]

The Starter Garden is about the progress of the writer's first vegetable garden, in Minneapolis. An excerpt: O NE piece of unfinished business. Earlier this summer I posted the first […]

The Starter Garden is about the progress of the writer's first vegetable garden, in Minneapolis. An excerpt: THE tomatoes are blighted and losing their leaves. The blue Jarrahdale pumpkins are […]

The Starter Garden traces the progress of the writer's first vegetable garden, in Minneapolis. An excerpt: HOW many days remain in summer? For a person of a certain temperament -- […]

The Starter Garden is about the progress of the writer's first vegetable garden in Minneapolis. An excerpt: MY vegetable garden may be growing on me, but it's still not family. […]

THE onerous task of cultivating a bumper crop of summer raspberries, I have found, involves a strenuous amount of sitting on my duff and not gardening, which it turns out […]

THINNING plants is a job for the callous. The row of carrot greens in my vegetable garden, for example, was looking as crowded as the Hummel cabinet at Auntie's house. […]

EVERYONE knows how to use a hose: turn the spigot, and the water comes out. Watering a vegetable garden couldn't be much harder. There is the tricky matter of attaching […]

HOW much time and money have I wasted gardening this spring? It depends on how you define 'waste.' When I started planting seeds in March, I promised in my first […]

UNTIL recently, it wouldn't have occurred to me that gardening would be a popular pastime for the totalitarian set. But a droll little footnote in a recent biography of Josef […]

DOES anyone have a delectable recipe that calls for a square inch of lettuce? Almost three months after I sowed my first seeds indoors in the sunless depths of March, […]

Michael Tortorello is writing a blog on the progress of his first vegetable garden in Minneapolis. His posts, including the most recent one, below, can be found at nytimes.com/pages/garden. ALONG […]

I have no truck with chickens. I don't eat them and I don't like them. They are, to my eyes, savage and prehistoric, a fluffier breed of lizard. And yet, […]

SINCE my girlfriend and I bought a vacant lot in the winter of 2000, it has provided us with a steady harvest of nothing. Perhaps that's unfair. The yard next […]

SALLY ELIASEN acquired her first creche during the Vietnam War. Marooned at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1966 while her husband was in Officer Candidate School, Ms. Eliasen began dropping by […]

IN a strictly technical sense, Cynthia Worley is not transforming her basement into a time machine. Yet what's going on this harvest season beneath her Harlem brownstone on 122nd Street, […]

WITH the onset of Sukkot, an increasingly popular Jewish harvest holiday that has lately emerged from the high, holy shadows of its immediate precursors, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, those […]

IN the fall of 2007, Will Hopkins and Mary K. Baumann made what many New Yorkers would consider a puzzling real estate decision. Maybe a crazy one. Having sold their […]

The article features couple Elizabeth Scotten and Sean Scotten of Oakland, California, mentioning their designs for nursery rooms.

The article offers information on orchards that offer heritage apple varieties including Wagon Wheel Orchard in Kansas, Seed Savers Exchange Historic Orchard in Iowa, and Breezy Hill Orchard in New York.

The article focuses on collecting and trade of moss.

The article offers advice from bloggers Chantal Aida Gordon and Ryan Benoit regarding Astro turf and outdoor design using turf grasses.